Gear Giveaway – Win a Katadyn BeFree 3.0L Water Filter!

Need a brand new, super light weight water filter for all of your back country needs? Here’s your chance to win a completely free Katadyn BeFree 3.0 Liter Water Filter ($59.99 Value)! I reviewed the 1.0 Liter version of this filter a few weeks ago and it’s amazing! You can read that review HERE. Good Luck!

Danette Benoit

P.S. – Dave, I 100% promise I INTENDED for the last line to be about ESCAPING the island. After I wrote it, I was driving to my son’s soccer practice and started laughing to myself realizing what I had done. I am now sitting here, blushing, and embarrassed! Reckon that banana hammock has already made me chuckle!

While not necessarily a piece of outdoor gear, I feel, in this situation, I’d 100% go with a banana hammock. Why? Should I find myself in such a situation, I feel that may the only time in my life when I’d have the courage to wear said item and, in such a situation, I would want to do anything that I could to get a little chuckle (and, of course this would remind me of one of my good running buddies, so I’d be primed to asked myself, “What would McDuffie do in this situation?”). The ONLY downside to this article is that, assuming I don’t have a backpack, it would mighty difficult to carry my brand new Katadyn BeFree 3.0L water filter. On the upside, I’m assuming this item would be so uncomfortably tight, that I could put any number of items in the waist strap (and, perhaps other places) and they’d remain in place. In the end, if nothing else, I’d be able to start future stories off with, “Once, while stranded on a desert I was able to use a banana hammock to get myself off.” I can live with that.

Rebecca Lynn

Ray Logan

I picked up a BeFree 0.6L a few months ago, as a backup water source for longer treks. Love it! It’s crazy how fast water flows thru it, like almost no resistance at all.
Can’t decide on one people of gear. Either a machete or matches.

Hi Dave! Thanks for putting on this give away. I love my 1L Katadyn BeFree – it has completely replaced my Sawyer Squeeze. I would love to have the 3L version for longer or group trips. As for my answer to the question, “You’re stranded on a desert island. You’re allowed to have a single piece of outdoor gear with you. What would it be?” I would have to go with my Enlightened Equipment Revelation Quilt. It is sooo cozy and versatile. Plus, I really had to save up for it and the customization of it really makes it feel like “mine” – ya know?